Author: Anna

Need something indoors to do with the kids?

Dur­ing the school hol­i­days the good folk at the Film Archive run a kids movie pro­grammed called Mini Sized Square Eyes (not to be con­fused with the Square Eyes Found­a­tion).

Every Monday, Wed­nes­day and Fri­day at 11am dur­ing the hol­i­days the kids can be enter­tained for an hour with gems from the Archive’s extens­ive col­lec­tions, includ­ing the ori­gin­al film ver­sion of Where the Wild Things Are, early Walt Dis­ney anim­a­tion and clas­sic slices of NZ exper­i­ments on film. Screen­ings designed for kids aged 4 – 12 years. Bug­gies wel­come.

Entry by gold coin dona­tion.

Xiu Xiu

So many good things on this week­end. Maybe Wel­ling­ton’s about to put its head up out of the winter slump.…? 

One high­light is art-pop­pers Xiu Xiu who are play­ing SFBH with Sia­mese (Grayson Gilmour) and tal­en­ted duo Glass Vaults. Phew.

And here’s a girl in an apple. Tickets$26

Soup & A Seat

Today’s soup is Min­es­trone and today’s film is Nude Zea­l­and

Soup & a Seat for $8!
Need I say more?

Nude Zea­l­and (New Zea­l­and, 1999)
Ninox Films, Exempt, 45 minutes

A series of frank inter­views with vari­ous New Zea­l­and natur­ists, explor­ing their many and var­ied motiv­a­tions for fol­low­ing the clothes-free life­style.

Ori­gin­ally screened in Prime Time on TV3, Nude Zea­l­and man­ages to avoid many of the clichés and much of the innu­endo that so fre­quently goes hand-in-hand with doc­u­ment­ar­ies on natur­ism.

Nude Zea­l­and talks to mem­bers of Natur­ist clubs and the doc­u­ment­ary crew is on hand when Christ­ch­urch fire­fight­ers pay a vis­it to a loc­al club, some of whom are mak­ing tent­at­ive steps towards life ‘in the buck’.

Nude Zea­l­and also looks back to the first NZ nud­ist club, estab­lished in 1933. Warn­ing: (not sur­pris­ingly) CONTAINS NUDITY.

Event details here

Spaced Out

The Film Archive Trav­el­ing Film Show is back in Wel­ling­ton this week with a bril­liant selec­tion of space films sourced from their extens­ive col­lec­tion.

This should be a doosey (doozey? have just real­ised I don’t know how to spell that) with early fantasy films from the late 1890s by French film maker and magi­cian George Méliès. Plus foot­age from 1965 of Rus­si­an astro­naut Alexei Leonov con­duct­ing the world’s first space­walk!